Shirley Li

Alex McCown

The unfortunate tendency to pile on the daytime-worthy dramatics means the show’s strongest element--the thorny and fraught nature of a murder case in the era of social media--gets underserved all too often.

Mary McNamara

Aided by Zane and Anthony Head, both of whom are clearly having a great time, the twists may allow viewers to overlook the clunky dialogue and nonsensical plotting. And there’s something admirable about setting such a say-cheese-please murder mystery in the backyard of “Sherlock,” “Luther” and other high-minded British detective shows.

Jeff Korbelik

Maureen Ryan

Guilt isn’t about power players per se, but it fails to deliver on a number of important fronts. Its characters are predictably written, the dialogue is average at best, and Grace in particular does so many dumb things that it’s hard to care about what happens to her.

Dan Fienberg

Guilt is such a mess of feigned and failed authenticity and feigned and failed vulgarity that it's most uncomplicated pleasure comes from watching Billy Zane basically play a hybrid of James Spader's characters from The Practice and The Blacklist.